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From 1897 to 1917 the red-light region of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans' longstanding reputation for sin and intimate extra. This notorious neighborhood, located just outside of the French 1 / 4, hosted a diverse cast of individuals who reflected the cultural milieu and intricate social framework of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city infamous for both prostitution and interracial intimacy. In particular, Lulu White, a mixed-race prostitute and madam, created an image of herself and sold it profitably to sell gender with light-skinned women to white men of means. In Amazing Wickedness, Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed region within the cultural context of expanding racial, intimate, and gender ideologies and tactics. In 1890, the Louisiana legislature exceeded the Separate Car Work, which, when challenged by New Orleans' Creoles of color, led to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896, constitutionally sanctioning the enactment of different but equal laws. Landau reveals how Storyville's salacious and eccentric subculture performed a substantial role in the way New Orleans built itself during the New South age.
